If the title of this blog came as a surprise to you, then you should know that true astrology is actually scientific! What is not scientific is the popular, predictions orientated astrology you probably are familiar with!

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Since I was a kid I had an intellectual fond for the “bearded guys”. I mean I loved the
1960’s hippies alright but I had a very special kick for the ancient
Greek philosophers. Some great philosophers were living almost next to
my house in Athens. And they were speaking a language very similar to
the one I was speaking. So, from early on in my life I felt a
particular connection to them. My little adolescent “getaways” consisted
of me visiting the ancient “Agora” (forum) under Acropolis - a vast
area full of ruins lying below the majestic Parthenon - day daydreaming
there that I was suddenly meeting on a street turn Socrates and that I
was engaging on a conversation with him…

Back then little did I
know that the Greek philosophers (and mainly Socrates, Plato and
Heraclitus) would come very handy to me later on in my life, when I
started teaching Astrology. You see the major complaint of my astrology
students is that astrology consists of so many diverse and disparate
elements that the student is hardly able to memorize the properties of
each one of them, let alone proceed to a proper synthesis of all those
disparate elements, and thus to an effective natal chart
interpretation! As an eternal “parroting” adversary I am totally
sympathizing with my students. Personally, I have always been a fervent
advocate of the “critical thinking” and even of the “sentimental
approach” to knowledge.

From the “bearded guys” I knew that
true knowledge means inter-relating the disparate elements and unifying
them instead of fragmenting them. But back then - on my late twenties - I
did not know any available method that would help me to unify the so
many and apparently inconsistent astrological elements.

Then
an epiphany occurred to me! I started studying thoroughly the teachings
of the foremost humanistic astrologer Dane Rudhyar. Rudhyar helped me
enormously realize how unifying the astrological knowledge is and how
much is based upon principals that in reality are not just astrological
but universal. And I knew from the aforementioned great philosophers
that those principles are somehow “implanted” in every human being’s
brains! Actually, Socrates and Plato advocated the thesis that we human
beings harbor inside us a primordial “super knowledge” of all things -
although on a somehow fuzzy state. Thus, the only thing we have to do,
in order to get “knowledgeable” on some field is to bring into focus and
make conscious in our brains the respective fuzzy knowledge we already
possess!

That was it! Suddenly I realized that I didn’t have to
“impose” any kind of “knowledge” to my students. I just had to become a
sort of “intellectual midwife” and simply assist them in delivering on
their own the astrological knowledge they already possessed! And that
meant that I had to work with them in a totally opposite way, “from
inside out”. I had to avoid at any cost the “academic teaching” (to
present them stuff that they should uncritically accept and memorize)
and help them “give birth” to those astrological principals they already
possess! And consequently expand and “build” upon those principals,
which the students carry “incorporated” in them. Because whatever is
“unconsciously incorporated” in us carries the potential of becoming
crystal clear to us at some point - if properly “triggered”!

My
firm conviction is that students don’t have to “be taught” astrology,
they don’t need to painstakingly memorize hundreds of properties,
qualities and attributes of signs, planets and symbols! They already
know astrology and the only thing they have to do is simply “recollect”
it!

To read more please visit the IAA website to read the syllabus as well as to register for my new course.

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I am perennially in love with Astrology!. I Socratically believe in the Human Being, I believe that
"Good" always thrive at the end (although it might take an awful lot of
time)! I love sensitive people, reading, philosophizing, listening to some dreamy music, travelling.